Age verification for all.

Discord announced on Monday that it’s rolling out age verification on its platform globally starting next month, when it will automatically set all users’ accounts to a “teen-appropriate” experience unless they demonstrate that they’re adults.

Users who aren’t verified as adults will not be able to access age-restricted servers and channels, won’t be able to speak in Discord’s livestream-like “stage” channels, and will see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive. They will also get warning prompts for friend requests from potentially unfamiliar users, and DMs from unfamiliar users will be automatically filtered into a separate inbox.

Direct messages and servers that are not age-restricted will continue to function normally, but users won’t be able to send messages or view content in an age-restricted server until they complete the age check process, even if it’s a server they were part of before age verification rolled out. Savannah Badalich, Discord’s global head of product policy, said in an interview with The Verge that those servers will be “obfuscated” with a black screen until the user verifies they’re an adult. Users also won’t be able to join any new age-restricted servers without verifying their age.

    • Nighed@feddit.ukEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I’m going to try self hosting https://stoat.chat/ not sure it has screen sharing yet, but apparently they just re-wrote all their voice/video stuff, so it should be available soon.

      • timestatic@feddit.orgEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I like element honestly, it has everything I need. Element call as a recent implementation is nice for that sort of thing. It also supports screen sharing

        • Nighed@feddit.ukEnglish
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          4 days ago

          I’m in the UK though, so they imply they may (already or in teh future) need to verify my age anyway.

          They don’t seem to have a great out of box experience currently, will require some more poking around.

    • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Tonight I’ve tried a bunch of options

      revolt/stoat, and I couldn’t make voice channels at all. If I could and it worked fine probably would have used that immediately

      spacebar chat, got the server running just fine, no idea which UI to use, and when I tried the options I couldn’t connect to the server and it was really clunky

      setup team speak 6, immediately wanted me to create an account on their servers, rm -rf

      setup mumble - might actually work, but looks like ass, friends are gonna be skeptical

      setting up full blown matrix now I guess.

    • Vespair@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Honestly, what was wrong with Ventrillo for voice and literally any forum software for everything else?

    • Baaron87@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      For a potential 1:1 Discord alternative? The one that has stood out to me is Guilded. I started looking at alternatives last year when talk about this was starting to float around and forgot about it.

      Here’s a recent article with alternatives that I found in a quick search. Don’t agree with all of them personally, but I’m not the target audience for some of them.